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J. RODGERS.

REGISTER.

No. 14,470. Patented Mar. 18, 1856.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

JAS. RODGERS, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

OMNIBUS-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 14,470, dated March 18, 1858.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES RODGERS, of thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented made and applied touse a new and useful improvement in registers for indicating the numberof passengers or the fares paid in omnibuses, railroad-cars, of otherconveyances or for any other similar purposes of registration; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification,wl1erein Figure 1, is an elevation of the working parts of my apparatus.Fig. 2, represents portions of said working parts with the indicatingdials in place and Fig. 8, is an elevation of the register complete.

Similar marks of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In registers for omnibuses and other conveyances subject to suddenmotion or jar great diificulty has heretofore been experienced inpreventing the main ratchet wheel on which the registration is made frombeing carried by its own momentum or any sudden jar beyond the properpoint, thereby registering too much, it being very easy to prevent saidratchet wheel from returning by making use of pawls, but these allacting heretofore in one direction do not overcome the difiiculty beforementioned. I therefore cause the point of the pawl or pusher whichrevolves the ratchet wheel one tooth at a time to pass beneath a stoppiece or stud, which preventing the point of the pawl from being thrownout of the ratchet teeth blocks the wheel and effectually prevents thesame from turning until the pawl is drawn out to take into anothertooth.

The great advantage of registers, that are reliable, in omnibuses, railroad cars and other conveyances will be too apparent to need any lengthycomment, suffice to say that if the driver or conductor has to registerevery fare that he takes, and a bell is struck every time the registermoves, he is almost sure to be detected in cases of dishonesty, for theregister must indicate the total number of fares received and thepassengers or the employer himself could detect fraud when the registerdid not indicate as many passengers as there were actually inside thevehicle. And as the register cannot be set by the driver, the totalnumber of fares received is indicated to the employer by the registeritself.

Fig. 1 letter A is a piece of sheet or cast iron to which the works arefixed the dial and circle numbers being ofi.

B is a square rod of iron until it reaches the lower piece in which itmoves up or down it is then round as can be seen also in a side view atA being the edge of the piece on which the works are fixed.

B is the same square rod as at B to which is attached a spiral spring Pfor drawing it down when the rod has been pulled up and let go.

D is a lever of a double action, one end of which moves freely on a studfirmly fixed in plate A, in the middle of lever D there is a joint inwhich piece C moves, the other end of which is attached to rod B bymeans of a screw or stud on which it moves; when rod B is pulled updouble lever D is drawn out of tooth in wheel K and comes in contactwith stud E which makes it, when rod B is let go, take another tooth ofthe wheel, the wheel having been held from returning by the double catchF pressed into the tooth by spring G the great advantage of this leveris, it needs no spring. It has also a most important part on it-that isthe projection at D into the tooth of the wheel, the point of the leverbeing in a tooth and resting against stud E whereby when the rod B isdown, the wheel is firmly fixed so it can not move in any direction,also it can move but one tooth at a time; hammer tail 1 in tooth ofwheel K is raised as the wheel moves around and strikes bell J by meansof spiral spring H fastened to the same stud with spring G which rendersthe registering of the hand and stroke on the bell at the same instantboth acting at the same time. No jerking up of the rod can make itstrike the bell or shake the hand much, as catch F being double catchesthe wheel before the rod has fully returned to its place.

L is a ratchet wheel moving on a stud with the spring M holding it untilpin a in wheel K at every revolution takes one tooth of wheel L whichhas a dial on the same socket represented at O in Fig. 2; dial Nnumbered from 1 to 49, O standing for 50, the dial of Fig. 3 beingplaced over dials O and N Fig. 2, and having a square opening throughwhich dial O of Fig. 2 is seen at 1,

Fig. 3, and also dial N Fig. 2, as at 0 Fig. 3 which dials keep thecorrect number whether the hand on dial Fig. 3 be moved forward orbackward. The small dial 0 takes 20 revolutions of dial N to make onerevolution of it, which when revolving and seen through the opening inFig. 3 counts from one to one thousand.

I do not claim the general plan of an omnibus register acted on by astrap to the conductor or driver, or fitted with any other means formoving the register, neither do I claim the indicating dials or hands,or any arrangement of the same, neither do I limit my invention to usewith the peculiar ar-

